His last appearance was retrieving a kicking tee during a Dec. 22 home game for the NFL’s Carolina Panthers in Charlotte.
Beloved Ripken The Bat Dog who retrieved baseball bats for the local baseball teams and fetched kicking tees for the North ...
Ripken the Bat Dog, the endlessly eager black Labrador who charmed fans at Durham Bulls and N.C. State University football ...
Ripken the bat dog, a staple of the North Carolina sports community, died on New Year's Day. Here's what we know and how ...
Ripken, most famous for being the bat dog at Durham Bulls games but also seen at NC State football, Carolina Panthers and Carolina Hurricanes games, died suddenly and unexpectedly at the start of ...
Ripken joined the rest of the state’s mascots at the game. “It was an incredibly humbling experience and representative of exactly how much Ripken meant to the people of his home state,” the ...
In a Facebook post Friday, the O’Donnell family said Ripken died Wednesday due to complications “from a serious undiagnosed medical condition.” The 8-year-old Ripken’s history in the ...
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — The family that trained Ripken The Bat Dog — best known for fetching bats and football kicking tees during sporting events in North Carolina — says the black Labrador has ...